Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It had Swiss Family Robinson and I wanted to see the differences to my version. Mine has mixed up names for the kids, a prologue, and the wife gets a name (Elizabeth). Would have been cool to look for all the differences, but, alas, we weren't there long enough to properly appreciate the accom. 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Grand Final was heartbreak, I am home elevenish hours later than intended due to flight cancellation, and I have no chance of catching up on the internet. But my accommodation had a fascinating wall of books (full set of Australian Law Reports and English law history, anyone?). 110
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One heart attack later, and the Dockers are in the grand final... 💜💜💜 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am terrible at it and had a terrifying optometrist once who pushed me so hard about having to choose, one of them definitely was, that I just started saying random ones to please her :S It is possible they ordered the wrong lens or put in the number wrong, that does happen. 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I saw all the wildflowers and seven echidnas and one numbat and a mob of kangaroos (unexpected in that area, if utterly normal elsewhere). 020
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I wrote such ridiculous, convoluted sentences avoiding was or is or whatever. Random thought brought to you by looking at a sentence and realising it was too formal, and it just needed the word just. Another 'evil' word that apparently needed banishing from my vocabulary once. 011
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When I was a baby writer, I was taught 'to be' was so bad, avoid it at all costs, etc. In retrospect, the original rule was probably don't use passive voice (a rule with its own problems obviously) that had then been passed on to an impressionable me in a misunderstood form. 120
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Went out to dinner with friends and then, lo, there was a bookstore open next to the ramen place. We all bought books, of course. 062
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I have once again failed to do better at Hugo voting. I think I've managed to do worse. At least I got to read (and play) some really good things anyway! (And I should probably give up on my last minute but maybe if I stare at some more of the art or...) 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026At least when I woke up to see this, the site was already down. I can see via a google search they did have my single DSF story though :( Hopefully it stays down. 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026All of Tansy Rayner Roberts' books are just sheer fun. I look forward to this one! (Once I charge my kobo...) 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Maybe she really doesn't want the job but needs to say, "Look, I applied, not my fault they didn't respond." 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Watching Gruen. Which means I am watching ads I would normally hit skip on or ignore if I can't skip as soon as possible. There's probably something wrong with this. (I'm still cringing at a bunch of them though so, you know, it's not me.) 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Library book haul. Three more than I intended to get because libraries are dangerous >> 040
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026(Of course, he just turned up his nose at the food because it was Wrong. How? Who knows, maybe he'll go back and eat some later. Maybe his brother will eat it all.) 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I am pretending the cat is sitting basically on my arm because he loves me. Not because it's a wet food day and I went into the kitchen a moment ago so clearly it is also wet food time. 100
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Hugo reading: I finished my current series, which just happened to be a Hugo nom series, and read one of the novellas (and started playing Dispatch). But now my new Murderbot is here and even though the library books are right there I just want to re-read all the Murderbot and... 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The Fremantle Dockers keep trying to give me a heart attack... 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Saw posts about the new Murderbot and got excited, but, no, it'll be a week in Australia before they can even ship my copy ; ; (I shouldn't complain. Books can be delayed six months in Australia. A week is good. But still.) 020
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I have been reading the Emily Wilde series, so technically I'm already on my Hugo reading, which is also rare! 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Really pleased my library not only has all of the Hugo nominated novels available, it also has all the novellas! And some of the Lodestar noms. I feel like this is rare. Now I just need to find the oomph to read something new that isn't just nice and gentle... 110
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Went camping over Easter. There was a little bird bath with many birds. 100
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I forgot I was sitting on the edge of my seat because there was a cat behind me. There is no longer a cat behind me, but a rather offended one down the hallway. 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I thought I disliked the misleading mobile game ads, but having now been getting a slew of snake oil ads, I'll take the game ones. The most they'll do is irritate someone who goes to download a game and discovers it's nothing like the ad. Snake oil ones are trying to kill people :( 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026(If that DM was from you, I cannot see it, sorry! Australian, Bluesky locked me out of my inbox just in case it became affected by the social media laws, and its verification process has already refused me once and made itself too much effort. If it was not you, sorry, whoever it was haha) 110
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026In a possibly silly question, is this a replacement for the Grinder newsletter? Or does it give additional information? 100
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I tried to make my nails New Year's-y. Messy, but not so bad I felt the need to wipe them clean. 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025*looks at March 2024 pub date of that last one* Or, um, longer. 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Thinking about changing browsers means looking at some of my older tabs and actually reading the stories I opened up to read 'soon' probably at least a year ago >> 210
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Given my extensive posting habits (/s) this is probably literally every word I've used in the last year. 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025You can have some of the heat over here in Perth, if you'd like. Please. Take it. Please. 010
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025He really felt I needed more spell checks and the like. 020
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Managed to finish a jigsaw puzzle with only three major attempts at destruction by the cats (and some minor). 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Then back to Melbourne for a day of PAX, for the first time in long time. I didn't take pictures, except of game names to remember them to look into/wishlist later, since that sort of thing doesn't even occur to me. But this is my new void chicken. 000
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Royal Botanical Gardens in Hobart. Japanese Garden. 100
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025The Port Arthur Historic Site from a boat. Most prominent is the Penitentiary ruins, but you can also see part of the wall, the law courts, and the hospital at the back. The cruise (part of the ticket) was a good introduction to the site. 100
Tamlyn Dreaver @tamlyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Old Hobart Town in Richmond. A very cool historical model village. 100
